• Accept your child with love and understanding. Essentially, your child has the same needs as other children. Your child has the need to hear the reassuring words “I love you”.
   

• Work with your child on an older intellectual level. Recognize your child’s intellectual maturity. Expect him/her to understand as an older child would.
   

• Remember he/she is a child, not a little adult, and he/she needs to live the life of a child. Care must be taken not to overemphasize his/her abilities in front of others.
   

• Help your child learn from life while he/she is young. Encourage your child’s natural history.
   

• Challenge your child to try his/her solutions, to learn to test his/her ideas. Parents make a great contribution by encouraging a child to think situation through and consider the consequences. Be available. However, sometimes it is wise to wait until he/she asks for help.
   

• Read to your child. Encourage you child to read.
   

• Provide a variety of learning materials. Present activities such as the following:

  • Discover new uses for materials such as automobile tires or umbrellas.

  • Make up a code and write messages.

  • Estimate distances, and pace off the distance to check the answers.
     

• Provide enriching experiences, such as music lessons.
   

• Provide a relaxed home relationship that is conductive to discussion and counsel. Your child needs you to listen to him/her.
   

• Be sensitive to your child’s needs, and do everything possible to meet his/her needs.
   

• Use these important phrases: “That’s a great idea.” “Tell me more about what you want to know.” “That’s a good question. Let’s find out.” “What do you think about that?” “Try it. Go ahead. I’ll help you when you need it.”
   

• Encourage friendships.
   

• Visit libraries, museums, planetariums, zoos, nature spots, concerts, and other places.
   

• Read and discuss various resource materials and research that provide helpful suggestions and other information, such as characteristics of gifted children.
   

• Discover opportunities to use his/her talents now and in preparation for future goals and career plans.
   

• Demonstrate respect for education. Discover the joy of learning together.

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